Part of the exhibition this past weekend was a 24 hour comic on Saturday. This was my first attempt and I am both pleased and surprised to say that it was successful! 24 pages written drawn and inked starting at 9am and completed around 1.30 am.

I highly recommend anyone interested in making comics give it a go, it wasn’t as difficult as I feared. I find myself often staring at a blank page afraid of the effort required and this helped to smash some of those fears for me. If I can do this, I can do a page any day (or early morning).

If you haven’t been keeping with my infrequent updates on this project you can read an interview I gave about it.

So, what happens with 2816 now? Well, I promised my family that I would take the rest of the year off. I think they got sick of hearing the coffee grinder at 4am. So 2816 starts back up in the new year. I hope to finish it in 2013 but I’m not quite sure just how many pages are left so it may go into 2014. We’ll see.

So to finally PROVE I haven’t been drinking mimosa’s all summer, here’s some process photos of my summer project. Cassandra Ellison, local Freelance Graphic Designer and friend has been taking care of the final touches on this project. Printing, cutting, and twice gluing each of the 400 panels to ceramic tiles. CRAZY! Here they are wreaking havoc all over her dining room table.

2816 hasn’t been updated for a while because I’m in the middle of another project with a September deadline. Jared Cullum of Pea Green Coffee Cup had this great idea to get a bunch of folks together for a 24 hour comic. Bizhan Khodabandeh took that idea and whipped it into what promises to be an amazing comics exhibition/24 hour comic event this September at a local gallery. Not sure if I’m allowed to give any more details than that so I’ll let either of them do so in the comments if they want.

2816 Monument WILL return after this comic is finished. The rest of the 2816 is written and I am very excited to finally reach the conclusion.

Anyways I’ve been working on a rather large comic for the show that I am super excited about finally producing. It’s something I wrote several years ago but had no reason to produce it since it is not in book format and has to be displayed on a rather large gallery wall which I didn’t have access to until now. The piece is roughly 10×10 feet comprised of 400 square panels with stories intersecting like a giant crossword puzzle influencing each other as they overlap.

I’ll be releasing panels from the comic on google+ over the coming months. One or more everyday is my plan. If that sort of thing interests you go ahead on over and drop me in a circle.

For now here’s a short sequence and an inked panel to give you an idea of what to expect.